A new pharmacy on E. Sta-
dium Blvd. celebrated its grand
opening on Tuesday. Ann Arbor
Pharmacy is an apothecary of-
fering customers service using
a European and Middle Eastern
approach.
Manager Ziad Ghamraoui said
he wanted to change the way his
neighbors and other members
of the Ann Arbor community
received health and beauty sup-
plies. After owning two pharma-
cies in the area, he decided to
take a different approach to his
new business endeavor.
“I wanted … my community to
have access to high-end, organic
products,” Ghamraoui said. “I
didn’t want to carry the main-
stream stuff, so (I) decided to opt
to carry high-quality products
that you can’t find at a normal
pharmacy.”
These products include soaps,
herbal and homeopathic medi-
cation, as well as high potency
multivitamins. Ghamraoui said
he was deliberate in the products
that he chose to carry.
“Everything in the store is very
well-curated,” Ghamraoui said.
“We went through a very selec-
tive process and chose pretty
much some of the best names out
there that we believe the commu-
nity can use and is to their best
interest.”
Nursing sophomore Caroline
Baubonis said the pharmacy pre-
sented a creative take on self care.
“Opening organic pharma-
cies in Ann Arbor expands the
realm of medicine beyond the
laboratory,” Baubonis said.
Ghamraoui said he aims to
change the speed and efficien-
cy in which customers receive
their prescriptions.
“Usually it takes 15, 20, 30
minutes to get your prescrip-
tions,” Ghamraoui said. “If
you’ve been to the Middle East
or Europe, you’re in and out in
minutes. It shouldn’t take hours
to fill a prescription, so we are a
pharmacy that has a profession-
al staff that allows people to be
in and out in seconds. We pride
ourselves on this.”
Ghamraoui said while his
staff is not comprised of physi-
cians, they are knowledgeable
in customer service and indi-
vidualized patient care.
“Our staff went to school for
health care and did services on
dermatology,” Ghamraoui said.
“We have a background. We
may not be certified as physi-
cians but we know about skin
care and the pharmacists are
the most accessible health care
professionals.”
The design of the pharmacy
mimics a European boutique and
was created by Lisa Suave, a de-
signer at Synecdoche Designs.
Ghamraoui praised Suave’s work.
“I told her this is what I want
— this is what international phar-
macies look like,” Ghamraoui said.
“She did a good job on my vision.”
LSA
sophomore
Maxine
Taskin stopped into the phar-
macy to take a look. She said she
thought the store was a good
complement to the local business
community.
“I think that this is a great ad-
dition to both the Ann Arbor and
University of Michigan com-
munity,” Taskin said. “Many stu-
dents have specific health or skin
problems that they either have
to order a variety of expensive
products online to treat, or have
to deal with alone and away from
home. Having a resource to help
not only provide high-end prod-
ucts but help diagnose specific is-
sues is amazing.”
Ghamraoui said a lot of friends
and local business owners attend-
ed a grand opening party, medi-
ated by the Ann Arbor-Ypsilanti
Regional Chamber of Commerce.
“We were offering discounts
and lots of people bought lots of
products at the grand opening
sale price,” Ghamraoui said. “It
was very humbling … My mom
and dad happened to be in town
and beat the storm (that night),
so I was happy they were there.
We brought some sweets from
Lebanon and Syria and catered
Lebanese food.”
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